Cylindrical-bale cotton-press.



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(Application filed. June 17, 1899.)

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No. 639,491. Patented Dec. l9, I899.

L. ANDERSON.

CYLINDRICAL BALEYCUTTU'N PRESS.

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(Applicatiou filed June 17, 1899.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,491, dated December 19,1892. Application filed June 17, 1899. Serial No. 720,959. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEE ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paris, in the county of Lamar and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oylindrical- Bale Cotton Presses; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel improvements in cylindrical-bale cotton presses; and the object is to simplify and improve the construction, increase the efficiency, and pro 'vide a durable powerful press adapted to form a dense compact cylindrical bale.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several mechanical elements of the press, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cylindrical-bale cottonpress embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the partly-formed bale. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the press. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary View, partly in sec tion, of the bale-chamber. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the same parts, but with the balechamber open to discharge the bale. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of the bale-forn1- ing spindle.

In the drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

1 denotes the endless feed-belt, mounted on the rollers 2 and 8, which are suitably journaled in the framework.

4 denotes a condensing-roller loosely mounted in the frameand extending transversely across the path of the feed-belt.

The shaft of the roller 2 is provided with pulleys 2 2, from which the crossed belts 2 2 extend to similarpulleys 5 5 on the outer ends of the stationary pressure-roller 5 to impart the proper movement to the feed-belt, and this roller is also provided with sprocket-whee1s 5 5 from which the endless sprocket-chains 6 6 extend to similar sprocket-wheels 7' 7 on the outer ends of the counter-shaft 8, journaled in the upper end of the framework.

This counter-shaft 8 carries an elongated pulley 9, over which an endless baling-apron 10, of the same width thereof, extends to a corresponding pulley 11 on the main driven shaft 12, which is provided with a pulley 13, from which the driving-belt 14 extends to the prime motor or source of power. This baling-apron encompasses apressure-rollerlo, journaled in the auxiliary frame 16 parallel with and vertically beneath the roller 9 and approximately abreast of the rollers 3 and 5, and which has a longitudinal sliding engagement with the main frame, and the shaft 12 is also journaled in the sliding frame, and to compensate for this movement the driving-belt 14 passes under a stationary idler 14 and a belt-tightener pulley 14 so that the proper tension is imparted to tl'iedriving-belt without reference to the position of the pulley 13. This auxiliary frame 16 conforms in general construction to the main frame, with which it has a sliding engagement, as shown, to compensate for the building up of the bal 17 denotes a pressure -regulating screw 7 5 mounted in the elongated nut 17, fixed in the stationary extension 17 0f the main frame, and on its free end is fixed an elongated pinion 18, which meshes with an ordinary pinion 19, fixed on a longitudinal counter-shaft 8o 20, journaled in the extension-frame, and it carries a bevel-gear 21, which meshes with a corresponding gear 22, mounted on a transverse counter-shaft 23, which also carries a ratchet-Wheel 2e, and a lever 25 is also piv- 8 oted on this latter shaft 23, carrying a pawl 26, which engages the ratchet-Wheel, and motion is imparted to this lever by a rod 27, the contiguous end of which is removably'secured in one of the adjusting-holes in the free end 0 of said lever and the other end is pivoted to a wrist-pin 28, fixed in a block 29, adjustably secured in the radial groove 30, formed in the outer face of the sprocket-wheel 7. The object in mounting the screw 17 in the elongated nut 17 is to obtain a long bearing on the screw, so as to withstand the pressure re quired in forming the bale. It will be noted that the pinion 19 is stationary, and therefore the pinion 18, with which it meshes, is elon- 10o gated to correspond to the length of travel of the screw.

I That part of the main frame in which the bale is formed is for the sake of convenience termed the bale-chamber; and it consists of a strong framework suitably braced in any convenient manner to support the baling mechanism. Each side wall of the bale-chamber is formed with an inclined shoulder 31 and with a longitudinal groove 32, the rear end 33 .of which is open to receive the baleforming spindle 34;, the ends of which have a bearing in and a sliding engagement with said grooved walls. The abutting walls of the auxiliary frame are also grooved, one of which, 35, is seen in Figs. 5 and 6, to receive the journals of the pressure-roller 15. The bale-spindle 34 is provided with parallel collars or end flanges 37 37, which are snugly fitted thereto, as shown in Fig. 7, so as to be readily removed when the bale is finished.

The operation of the press is begun by adjusting the collars or end flanges 37 37 to the spindle 3i and dropping the same into the grooves 32 32 in the side walls of the framing, and the cotton from the condenser is discharged on the feed-belt 1 in front of the condensing-roller i, where the cotton is pressed into the form of a bat on the feed-belt,whence it is conducted to the bale-forming spindle, around which it is compactly wrapped by the action of the apron and the pressure-roller 5, the direction of movement of the apron and pressure-roller being indicated by the arrows in Figs. 2 and 3, and as the bat is wrapped on the bale-forming spindle the parallel collars or end flanges 37 prevent the fiber from getting into the bearing-grooves and at the same time form the ends of the bale parallel with each other and at right angles to the axis of the bale. Fig. 2 shows the position of the spindle in the forward end of the bearing-grooves 32 at the commencement of the operation, and itis held in contact with the pressure-roller 5 by the apron, the contiguous face of which rests against the second pressure roller 15, which, as before stated, is mounted therebetween in the sliding frame 1 6. As the bale begins to form, provision must be made to increase the distance between the two pressure-rollers 5 and 15, and this is antomatically accomplished to conform to the growth of the bale by permitting the roller to move away from the stationary roller 5. It will be noted that as the sprocket-wheel 7 rotates it carries the wrist-pin 28 with it,which reciprocates the rod 27, thereby oscillating the lever 25, which through its pawl-and-ratchet mechanism and bevel-gear 22 rotates the cor-.

responding bevel-gear 21 on the counter-shaft and its pinion 19 rotates the elongated pinion 18,which gradually backs off the screw 17 to correspond to the gradual increase in the size of the bale and at the same time maintain sufficient pressure to attain the required density of the bale. As the bale increases in size, the bale-spindle is crowded away from the pressure-roller 5, and when the bale is fully formed the spindle has arrived at the openings 33 in the walls of the framing, and the'tension of the bale-apron on the bale then forces the spindle up the inclined shoulders 31, where it rests on top of the feed-belt, and the completed bale will be thus automatically ejected from the press. The bale is now wired and the collars are removed from the spindle, which is then withdrawn from the bale, and the latter is ready for market.

By reference to Fig. 5 it will be seen that the bale-spindle 3i is mounted in the grooves 32, with the spindle against the pressureroller 5, and as the bale begins to form the spindle is pushed away from the pressureroller and toward the open ends of the grooves, and when the spindle arrives at the open ends of said grooves, there being nothing to further confine it, the bale-apron, which, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3, passes under the completed bale, tends to force the spindle up the inclined shoulders 31.

It will of course be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

In a cylindrical-bale cotton-press, the combination with the stationary main frame, the stationarypressure-roller journaled therein, parallel grooves formed in the opposite walls of the frame, and a balespindle mounted in said grooves; of a movable frame havinga sliding engagement with said stationary frame, a pressureroller journaled in said movable frame, the rollers 9 and 11 mounted respectively at opposite sides of the bale-spindle, and the bale-apron 10 encompassing said rollers 9 and 11 and the movable pressureroller, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimonywhereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEE ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

H. B. WILLSON, BENJ. G. OowL. 

